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PUBLIC LAW 93-640-JAN. 4, 1975

the Arthritis Plan estimates of necessary expenditures to carry out each such Institute's part of the comprehensive program included in the Plan. The estimates shall be prepared for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and for each of the next two fiscal years. (2) Within five days after the Budget is transmitted by the President to Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and for each of the next two fiscal years, the Secretary shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate, {ind the Committee on Commerce and Health of the United States House of Representatives an estimate of the amounts requested for arthritis research by each of the Institutes for which estimates were prepared under paragraph (1) and a comparison of such amounts with such estimates. (j)(1) The Commission shall publish and transmit directly to the Congress (without prior administrative approval or review by the Office of Management and Budget or any other Federal department or agency) the Arthritis Plan within two hundred and ten days after the date on which funds are first appropriated for the Commission. (2) The Commission shall cease to exist on the thirtieth day following the date of the submission of the Arthritis Plan pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection. (k) There are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of this section $2,000,000. ARTHRITIS

COORDINATING CXDMMITTEE, DEMONSTRATION C O M P R E H E N S IV E A R T H R I T I S CENTERS

PROJECTS,

Transmittal to congressional committees.

Arthritis Plan, publication; t r a n s mittal to C o n g r e s s.

Termination date. Appropriation.

AND

SEC. 4. Part D of title IV of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sections: " A R T H R I T I S COORDINATING

COMMITTEE

"SEC. 437. (a) In order to improve coordination of all activities in the National Institutes of Health, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and in other departments and agencies of the Federal Government relating to Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis, the Secretary shall establish an Arthritis Coordinating Committee to be composed of representatives of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (including the Food and Drug Administration) and of the Veterans' Administration, the Department of Defense, and other Federal departments and agencies iuA'olved in research, health services, or rehabilitation programs affecting arthritis. This committee shall include the Directors (or their designated representatives) of each of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health involved in arthritis related research. The Committee shall be chaired by the Associate Director established pursuant to section 434(e) and shall prepare a report not later than sixty days after the end of each fiscal year as possible, for the Secretary detailing the work of the committee in seeking to improve coordination of departmental and interdepartmental activities relating to arthritis during the preceding fiscal year. Such report shall include— "(1) a description of the work of the committee in coordinating the research activities of the National Institutes of Health relating to arthritis during the preceding year, and "(2) a description of the work of the committee in promoting the coordination of Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis to assure the adequacy of such programs and to provide for the adequate coordination of such programs and activities.

Establishment. 42 USC 289C-4.

Membership.

Post, p. Report.

Contents.

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